Improvement in spool-stands



W. HARRIS.

Spool-Stands.

Patented Dec. 9,1873.

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m1267220? @ZZ/Jaw@ ggwld UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WILLIAM HARRIS, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT |'N sPooL-sTANos.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,297, dated Dec( Inl: er 9, 1573; application tiled March 29, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HARRIS, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Spool-Boxes, of which the following is a specification:

My invention rst consists in turning out of Wood a box, A, and of putting spindles C perpendicular in the groove, making them fast in the base of the same, on which spools i of thread are put for use. The spools are down in a groove, and not on a platform. The thread e from each spool, respectively, is put through the eyelet d on the top ot' the outer rim of the box. The threads all appear in sight, so that it may readily be seen which one is needed.

The second part of my invention consists in adding a series of inner boxes for various uses. The box c is turned out inside ofthe groove a, and is designed for buttons, thimbles, &c. It is covered with another box, f, turned out and put inside of the top of it. This box f is for needles in papers and the like. The cover ot' this box is another box or top, turned out and provided with a pincusl1- ion, g.

I-Iere, then, is a happy combination-box for thread, buttons, needles, &c.

Putting' spools on spindles and carrying the thread out through eyelets is not new, or combining a pin-cushion is not new, but your inventor believes that a box turned out with the spools all arranged to sight, andthe combination of the boxes for buttons, needles, 85o., is a patentable novelty. The number of these inner boxes may be more or less, according to the taste of the manufacturer.

I claim- A spool-stan d having the open groove a, the eyelets d, and superimposed boxes e and j', and cushion g, constructed and arranged substantially as and for the purpose specitied.

VWILLIAM HARRIS.

lit-nesses:

GEO. W. WYMAN, SUMNER W. STRATTON. 

